Shearer, who does many voices for The Simpsons, played cucumber-packing bassist Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, the 1984 movie that cranked the band’s fame knob to 11.

Shearer and his guitar-playing cohorts in the Brit band, Michael McKean (who portrays David St. Hubbins) and Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), plan to have new songs ready for download later this year. Spinal Tap’s most recent album, Break Like the Wind, was released in 1992.

A Blu-ray version of the Spinal Tap mockumentary, which features classic comic songs like "Big Bottom" and "Stonehenge" (see video above), will be released March 17.